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Webster 1828 Edition

Poisoning

POIS'ONING

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ppr.

Infecting with poison; corrupting.

Definition 2024

poisoning

poisoning

English

Noun

poisoning ‎(countable and uncountable, plural poisonings)

The administration of a poison.
The state of being poisoned.
- 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
  Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.

Hyponyms

(administration of a poison): envenomation

Translations

administration of a poison

Catalan: enverinament m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 中毒 (zh) ‎(zhòngdú)
Danish: forgiftning c
Dutch: vergiftiging (nl)
Faroese: eitran f
Finnish: myrkyttäminen (fi)
French: empoisonnement (fr) m

German: Vergiftung (de) f
Haitian Creole: anpwazònman
Irish: nimhiú m
Italian: avvelenamento (it) m
Japanese: 中毒 (ja) ‎(ちゅうどく, chūdoku)
Malay: peracunan
Portuguese: envenenamento (pt) m
Russian: отравле́ние (ru) n ‎(otravlénije)
Spanish: envenenar (es)

state of being poisoned

Catalan: enverinament m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 中毒 (zh) ‎(zhòngdú)
Czech: otrava (cs) f
Esperanto: veneniĝo
Finnish: myrkytys (fi)
French: intoxication (fr) f

German: Vergiftung (de) f
Irish: nimhiú m
Japanese: 中毒 (ja) ‎(ちゅうどく, chūdoku)
Malay: keracunan
Portuguese: envenenamento (pt) m
Russian: отравле́ние (ru) n ‎(otravlénije)
Spanish: envenenamiento (es)
Ukrainian: отруєння (uk) f ‎(otrujennja)

Verb

poisoning

present participle of poison

Derived terms